高等考試
115年
[航海技術] 法學知識與英文(包括中華民國憲法、法學緒論、英文)
第 42 題
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It is still a problem for many people in the world to have safe water to drink. Some people hold that bottled water is a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; 41 , few may wonder where the former is made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s 42 that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water 43 tap water. The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge environmental impact. It usually 44 a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, 45 need 3 liters of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and 2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
It is still a problem for many people in the world to have safe water to drink. Some people hold that bottled water is a more convenient product than tap water when you need a quick drink; 41 , few may wonder where the former is made and why it costs so much. In fact, tap water isn’t a universal luxury. It’s 42 that more than 800 million people around the world don’t have safe drinking water, and even in the US, cities had to use bottled water 43 tap water. The tap water had aging facilities or toxic chemicals in the water supply. On the other hand, bottled water has a huge environmental impact. It usually 44 a lake, spring, or underground aquifer, and on average, 45 need 3 liters of water to make one liter of bottled water. To make plastic bottles, they need billions of gallons of oil every year and 2,000 times more energy than tap water needs.
第42題
- A conducted
- B included
- C estimated
- D secluded
思路引導 VIP
請觀察題幹中 42 格後的內容，這是一個關於「八億人口」的具體統計數字。當我們在正式報告中要引出一個經過計算得到的「大概數字」或「預測數據」時，通常會用哪一個詞來表達這個數字是「經過科學推估」得來的呢？
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恭喜你精準地選出了正確答案！這顯示你對於英文報導或學術文章中常見的「統計數據引述」具有非常敏銳的語感，這是高考英文拿高分的關鍵基礎。
統計語境下的標準句型
本題的關鍵在於虛主詞句型 「It is estimated that...」（據估計……）。當文中提到「全球超過 8 億人缺乏安全飲用水」這類龐大且難以精確計數的統計資料時，在語言習慣上，我們必須使用 estimated 來表達這是一個經過推算、具有科學根據的預估值。其他選項如 (A) conducted（執行/傳導）、(B) included（包括）或 (D) secluded（隱蔽/隔離的），在邏輯上都無法與後方的數據事實形成通順的搭配。
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